India and Pakistan spar at UN after Shehbaz Sharif likens people of Kashmir to Palestinians

India and Pakistan sparred implicit Kashmir astatine the UN General Assembly aft Pakistan's premier curate Shehbaz Sharif drew parallels betwixt the people of the Himalayan territory and Palestinians.

Kashmir is astatine the heart of a decades-old quality betwixt India and Pakistan, wherever some countries assertion the portion arsenic theirs, but power lone parts of it.

Mr Sharif successful his code connected Friday claimed that the radical of Kashmir had been struggling for a period for "freedom and close to self-determination", akin to Palestinians.

"Instead of moving towards peace, India has resiled from its commitments to instrumentality the Security Council resolutions connected Jammu and Kashmir," helium said.

He claimed that to "secure durable peace" India indispensable "reverse the unilateral and amerciable measures it has taken" 5 years back. New Delhi indispensable "enter into a dialog for a peaceful solution to the Jammu and Kashmir quality successful accordance with the UN Security [Council] resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people," Mr Sharif added.

The Indian authorities led by premier curate Narendra Modi scrapped the Muslim-majority region’s semi-autonomous status and downgraded the erstwhile authorities to a federally governed territory. It was besides divided into 2 national territories, Ladakh and Jammu-Kashmir, ruled straight by New Delhi, allowing it to name administrators to tally the territories.

Mr Sharif besides accused India of extra-judicial killings, prolonged curfews, and different "draconian measures" successful the region.

India utilized its close to reply astatine the General Assembly to deed backmost astatine Pakistan, calling Mr Sharif's code a "travesty".

"A country, tally by the military, with a planetary estimation for terrorism, narcotics commercialized and transnational transgression has had the audacity to onslaught the world’s largest democracy," said the archetypal caput successful India’s imperishable ngo to the UN, Bhavika Mangalanandan.

She accused Pakistan of having agelong "employed cross-border coercion arsenic a limb against its neighbours".

"For specified a state to talk astir unit anyplace is hypocrisy astatine its worst."

Pakistan has routinely raised the Kashmir enactment astatine the UN, which ever draws a effect from India.

For the archetypal clip successful 5 years since the abrogation of the peculiar status, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan refrained from mentioning Kashmir successful his code astatine the UN.

“We support our volition to make our relations with BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa], which brings unneurotic emerging economies,” helium said.